Traders have been stepping in to fill commodity financing gaps left by banks in recent years. Is this a temporary stopgap or a permanent shift in the financing sphere?...

We are delighted to announce that our annual June export and agency finance jamboree will this year be taking place in the Eternal city. TXF Rome 2016 will take place at...

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) has signed a $60 million murabaha agreement with the government of Burkina Faso and Sonabhy, the...

The mining sector of Iran has attracted more than $10 billion of investment pledges from China and Europe. Among them was Italy's Danieli, which signed a joint...

More than 630 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) took advantage of Export Development Canada's (EDC) export guarantee programme last year - a 15% rise from...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has offered technical and financial assistance for investment into the power sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in Pakistan. The government...

International law firm Thomas Cooper has examined receivables finance and looked at the importance of due diligence on the underlying sales or customer contracts.

Export Development Canada (EDC) has agreed $1.5 million in financing for British Columbia-based Vanrx Pharmasystems to help the company boost exports to India and the...

Ukraine's agricultural exporters are targeting Africa's growing middle class as a market to increase their trade. Ukraine agriculture minister Oleksiy Pavlenko...

World trade shrank 0.1% month-on-month in November after an increase of 0.6% in October, according to a data release by the Netherlands Bureau for Policy Analysis.

International law firm Reed Smith has hired Richard Lovell, an admiralty and casualty response lawyer, as a partner in its Singapore office. He joins from Ince &...

BAFT, an international financial services association, has launched a new programme to recognise future leaders in the transaction banking industry. The class of 2016...

SACE, the Italian export credit agency, has agreed to back exports of GE Oil & Gas worth $6 billion. SACE also confirmed it will support the sale of GE's...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is set to increase its exposure in Myanmar by injecting $200 million, in the form of debt financing, into the Myanmar...

Malta-based trade finance bank FIMBank has hired Michael Davakis as senior vice president and head of treasury. He has previously work for, among others, Germany's...

Fred Hochberg, chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US Ex-Im) speaks to TXF about the reality of running a bank that has been held...

AIG Indonesia has unveiled a new trade credit insurance amid a government pledge to increase exports in 2016. The insurance covers losses from natural disasters and...

French export credit agency Coface and the Central Bank of Iran have agreed on settling debt issues blocked while Iran was under international sanctions. The deal...

Rwanda is setting up an export credit and insurance facility in order to increase trade around the world by 28% annually. The government has worked with the...

Singapore-based commodity giant Olam International has promoted executive director Shekhar Anantharaman to the new position of executive director and group chief...